DICT BIOGRAPH QUOTATIONS - Hardcover
"If you're googling, the full name of this book is The Dictionary of Biographical Quotations. It's too bad specialized quotation books like this don't stay in print very long. This is a massive compendium, with double columns in tiny type of in-depth quotations about deceased British and American personages. The only really glaring omission, IMO at least, is that of Eamon de Valera. (Hey, he was born in Manhattan!) So often, collections of biographical quotations are mere hodge-podges of one-liners and insults. This book is a solid reference work, and should be purchased by anyone with a love for this sort of thing. The age of the book, 1978, is not a drawback since the subjects are all historical, and indeed many of the sources are rather obscure. Note: The publisher of the edition I have is Routledge & Kegan Paul, not Random House as indicated above."
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 039450027X
- ISBN 13 9780394500270
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages860
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Knopf 1978-10-12 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover VG. in VG dj dj wsm piece missing, in mylar; tiny tear at bottom edge of title pg 860 pages. 1st US edition. 4vo. Seller Inventory # 31198
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ISBN 13: 9780394500270
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st US Edition; First Printing. An attractive first American edition/first printing in Fine, seemingly unread condition, in about Fine dust-jacket, light wear to spine ends. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number on front paste down; More than a thousand of the most famous men and women, American and British, as revealed in quotation from biographies, memoirs and diaries, letters and journals, anecdotes, slogans, pamphlets, graffiti, epitaphs, obituaries, and at least one horoscope. (from the dust-jacket) ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 21859
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